Jon Evans
@craftyjon.com
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October 31, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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The race for Mayor of the Community Path grows heated.
June 26, 2025 at 2:25 AM
The race for Mayor of the Community Path grows heated.
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The FAA is a dumpster fire when it comes to mental health. This is an amazing and heartbreaking video by @xylafoxlin.bsky.social speaking up about her experience and the struggle of mental health in the aviation community.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj0H...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj0H...
The FAA is in Crisis
YouTube video by Xyla Foxlin
www.youtube.com
March 6, 2025 at 9:08 PM
The FAA is a dumpster fire when it comes to mental health. This is an amazing and heartbreaking video by @xylafoxlin.bsky.social speaking up about her experience and the struggle of mental health in the aviation community.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj0H...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj0H...
I've been building a new API for #KiCad for the past year, and we're getting ready to release the first version of it with V9 at the end of the month!
January 17, 2025 at 11:16 PM
I've been building a new API for #KiCad for the past year, and we're getting ready to release the first version of it with V9 at the end of the month!
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I've just announced my new (blazing-fast) kernel for implicit surfaces: mattkeeter.com/projects/fid...
It's got something for everyone: Cool graphs! Multithreaded WebAssembly! Terrible mesh topology! JIT compilers!
After three years, I'm excited to finally show it off to a wider audience 😎
It's got something for everyone: Cool graphs! Multithreaded WebAssembly! Terrible mesh topology! JIT compilers!
After three years, I'm excited to finally show it off to a wider audience 😎
January 8, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I've just announced my new (blazing-fast) kernel for implicit surfaces: mattkeeter.com/projects/fid...
It's got something for everyone: Cool graphs! Multithreaded WebAssembly! Terrible mesh topology! JIT compilers!
After three years, I'm excited to finally show it off to a wider audience 😎
It's got something for everyone: Cool graphs! Multithreaded WebAssembly! Terrible mesh topology! JIT compilers!
After three years, I'm excited to finally show it off to a wider audience 😎
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The KiCad project is excited to announce the first release candidate for the next major version is available for testing. Version 9.0.0 is expected to be released by 01/31/25.
New features can be found here forum.kicad.info/t/post-v8-ne...
Packages are available www.kicad.org/download/
New features can be found here forum.kicad.info/t/post-v8-ne...
Packages are available www.kicad.org/download/
https://forum.kicad.info/t/post-v8-new-…
December 22, 2024 at 5:26 PM
The KiCad project is excited to announce the first release candidate for the next major version is available for testing. Version 9.0.0 is expected to be released by 01/31/25.
New features can be found here forum.kicad.info/t/post-v8-ne...
Packages are available www.kicad.org/download/
New features can be found here forum.kicad.info/t/post-v8-ne...
Packages are available www.kicad.org/download/
The first release candidate for #kicad 9 is available! More info over on the forum: forum.kicad.info/t/stable-ver...
December 22, 2024 at 4:38 PM
The first release candidate for #kicad 9 is available! More info over on the forum: forum.kicad.info/t/stable-ver...
What KiCad features are the most mysterious to you?
December 14, 2024 at 2:55 PM
What KiCad features are the most mysterious to you?
KiCad 9 will visualize some DRC errors in a more clear way. Shown here is a new creepage test, which particularly benefits from this. Thanks to Fabien Corona for these two additions.
December 8, 2024 at 2:29 PM
KiCad 9 will visualize some DRC errors in a more clear way. Shown here is a new creepage test, which particularly benefits from this. Thanks to Fabien Corona for these two additions.
Multi-track drifting, er, dragging coming to KiCad 9! Video and code courtesy of Tom W :)
December 4, 2024 at 10:47 PM
Multi-track drifting, er, dragging coming to KiCad 9! Video and code courtesy of Tom W :)
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Giving Tuesday – KiCad open-source design #GivingTuesday 💻🔧🌍❤️🤝 #electronics
December 3, 2024 at 8:15 PM
Giving Tuesday – KiCad open-source design #GivingTuesday 💻🔧🌍❤️🤝 #electronics
KiCad 9 will also come with a ton of smaller tweaks and quality-of-life improvements, like this Chamfer feature added by John Beard:
December 2, 2024 at 5:16 PM
KiCad 9 will also come with a ton of smaller tweaks and quality-of-life improvements, like this Chamfer feature added by John Beard:
A new feature coming to the schematic editor in KiCad 9: rule areas, contributed by James Jackson. These allow you to do things like assign net classes to a number of nets at once (even if the nets are not themselves named)
December 1, 2024 at 2:50 PM
A new feature coming to the schematic editor in KiCad 9: rule areas, contributed by James Jackson. These allow you to do things like assign net classes to a number of nets at once (even if the nets are not themselves named)
KiCad 9 also will bring the selection filter to the schematic and symbol editors. This adds another workflow to edit multiple things in bulk (for example: set the filter to Pins, hit Ctrl+A to select all pins, and edit their properties in the Properties Panel)
November 28, 2024 at 4:42 PM
KiCad 9 also will bring the selection filter to the schematic and symbol editors. This adds another workflow to edit multiple things in bulk (for example: set the filter to Pins, hit Ctrl+A to select all pins, and edit their properties in the Properties Panel)
Another nice feature coming to #KiCad 9: The Zone Manager, contributed by Ethan Chien. This dialog lets you quickly check and re-arrange the fill order (priority) of all the copper zones in a board, and includes a graphical preview so you can more easily tell what zone you have selected.
November 26, 2024 at 10:56 PM
Another nice feature coming to #KiCad 9: The Zone Manager, contributed by Ethan Chien. This dialog lets you quickly check and re-arrange the fill order (priority) of all the copper zones in a board, and includes a graphical preview so you can more easily tell what zone you have selected.
KiCad 9 also adds the ability to mark a track on an outer layer as having no soldermask. You could do this before by copying the shapes to the mask layer, but this is much faster. Thanks to Andrzej Wolski for contributing this feature.
November 25, 2024 at 3:39 PM
KiCad 9 also adds the ability to mark a track on an outer layer as having no soldermask. You could do this before by copying the shapes to the mask layer, but this is much faster. Thanks to Andrzej Wolski for contributing this feature.
Another thing coming to KiCad 9 is custom padstacks. While you've been able to completely remove unconnected pads from a layer in recent versions, sometimes the situation calls for different shapes or sizes within the same pad. I'm looking forward to having this flexibility.
November 24, 2024 at 2:28 AM
Another thing coming to KiCad 9 is custom padstacks. While you've been able to completely remove unconnected pads from a layer in recent versions, sometimes the situation calls for different shapes or sizes within the same pad. I'm looking forward to having this flexibility.
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Hey Folks! We're getting close to tagging 8.0.7 for release. You can help test for bugs by using an 8.0 testing release and reporting any issues. As a bonus, you get all the older bugs fixed.
downloads.kicad.org/kicad/window...
downloads.kicad.org/kicad/macos/...
launchpad.net/~kicad/+arch...
downloads.kicad.org/kicad/window...
downloads.kicad.org/kicad/macos/...
launchpad.net/~kicad/+arch...
Downloads | KiCad EDA
downloads.kicad.org
November 19, 2024 at 8:42 PM
Hey Folks! We're getting close to tagging 8.0.7 for release. You can help test for bugs by using an 8.0 testing release and reporting any issues. As a bonus, you get all the older bugs fixed.
downloads.kicad.org/kicad/window...
downloads.kicad.org/kicad/macos/...
launchpad.net/~kicad/+arch...
downloads.kicad.org/kicad/window...
downloads.kicad.org/kicad/macos/...
launchpad.net/~kicad/+arch...
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If you are into product engineering, this is a great video. Going over many small design decisions and problems and how stuff gets manufactured.
Also perfect example why design files by themselves do not enable product clones. They could fully open source this and still no one could just clone it.
Also perfect example why design files by themselves do not enable product clones. They could fully open source this and still no one could just clone it.
I went to my old job and took apart their new 3D printer
YouTube video by Stuff Made Here 2
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November 14, 2024 at 3:57 AM
If you are into product engineering, this is a great video. Going over many small design decisions and problems and how stuff gets manufactured.
Also perfect example why design files by themselves do not enable product clones. They could fully open source this and still no one could just clone it.
Also perfect example why design files by themselves do not enable product clones. They could fully open source this and still no one could just clone it.